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April 03, 2011

Strawberry Time

First I want to express my sincere appreciation to Mary Fish for featuring me on her blog today. I hope you will find something to help inspire your next card! If you have the time please leave me a comment. I would love hearing from you and thanks for the visit!

Where I live one of the first things that come off the vine in the Spring are peas. It’s a big thing here … Peas and Dumplings soup! The dumplings are those slippery little suckers, you know the ones that want to slide right down. *smile* Along with that is, of course, ‘STRAWBERRIES’…I can hardly wait! The menu usually goes like this ~ Fresh Peas and Dumplings Hot Biscuits Fresh Strawberry Shortcake with whipped cream

With this in mind I knew where my next card was coming from! … LOL

Keeping it clean and simple with a little country flair and the strawberry being the focal point.

Here are the directions for the strawberry ~

The strawberry body is made from the Heart of Hearts die with a trimmed 5 petal punch on top of that. Another trimmed 5 petal punch down to two petals is placed on top of that (or just use the piece you just cut off). I punched three blossom sets and placed them randomly around the top of the strawberry. Each blossom was punched from the Boho Blossom punch adding a yellow brad from the Subtle collection. I used my bone folder to curl up the ends of each blossom. It doesn’t show up very well, but after cutting out the heart, using white and yellow inks, I lightly inked up the raised dots of the heart to represent the outer seeds of a strawberry. It does seem to give off a more realistic appearance in real life. If you look close in the bottom picture on the right, the inked dots are a little more clear.

Linda, I too came over from Mary's blog and I'm so thrilled to have discovered your work! What a creative genius! And we don't live that far apart, I'm just outside DC! As I said on Mary's blog, my mom would love this cute little card! I love to see new ways to use the punches!

Thanks for the warm hospitality at the 'loft!' Your featured card is so SWEET, and I love the you would use a heart for a clean and simple strawberry. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to snoop around the loft some more! Hugs,Edna

We have been enjoying strawberries from our garden and having discovered your strawberry card on Mary Fish's blog is awesome. Thanks for sharing the details and I look forward to following your postings!

Lady, you are good! I can see alot of things, but I sure didn't see a strawberry anywhere in those punches/dies! You card is absolutely fabulous. I just love it! You'll be seeing that strawberry again!!!! *smile* Love the strawberry blossoms! Hugs,

Came to your blog via Mary Fish. I absolutely adore your strawberry card. I can't wait to make it & send to my BFF whose fave fruit is strawberries! Looking forward to exploring more of your posts!Thank you so much for sharing.Roberta

About Me

Hello and thank you for stopping by my 'Stamping Loft'. I live in Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula. I've been married for 34 short years we have 3 wonderful children, 2 fabulous grandchildren and 2 great yellow labs.
Like most of you I am totally addicted to the world of stamping. It all started a short time ago when I was introduced to Stampin' Up products. Wow! One stop shopping with a superb quality all of its own.
I thoroughly enjoy all of blog land, appreciating all the labors of love; the talents shown by all of you is truly amazing. As a result I have decided to join in on the fun. In each post, I hope you will find a small bit of inspiration to keep your 'mojo' working.